In some mail from Marcus J. Ranum, sie said:
>
> What if when each syslogd starts up, it generates a nonce
> using, say, a CRC of time, pid, and log file inode # - it need not be
> cryptographically strong - and logs a message every whenever with
> ${timestamp} syslogd: host nonce sequence-number
If you're going to modify the text in the message, the consensus
from the syslog working group was to append text as there is less
likelihood of disrupting existing programs that expect the text
to be formatted the way it is today.
Darren
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